Moderator: Jean-David Malo, Director, Open Innovation and Open Science, European Commission

– Hermann Hauser, Chair of the Group of the Independent High-Level Group of Innovators on establishing a European Innovation Council
– Kostadin Kostadinov, Advisor to the Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Bulgaria
– Julien Guerrier, Director of the Executive Agency for SMEs

Each workshop has a Chair, a Rapporteur and 2-3 Experts who each provide a short 8 minutes presentation with their key Observations and EU-wide Recommendations – The Chair facilitates short contributions from the Workshop Participants and the Rapporteur then provides a wrap-up of Observations and Recommendations in the Plenary Session after lunch

Funding How can we provide appropriate finance for breakthrough innovation?